Some of the best storytelling posts and articles from the web this week.
Consider These Rules of Engagement for Career Storytelling
Kathy Hansen has had a great series going this week on using storytelling in the search for jobs and as a tool at review time and at other scenarios in the every day work world. You’ll want to read them all. The two links below are part of the series too.
Types of Stories You Can Tell in a Cover Letter (Part 5)
Types of Stories You Can Tell in a Cover Letter (Part 4)
Pop Culture as Competitive Advantage: Embracing the Chief Culture Officer
Wonderful article from Michael Margolis!
An Unexpected Interview
Character, Roleplaying and Storytelling
Historic Tale Construction Kit
An absolutely awesome tool for building your stories. Very creative too.
Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative
How to tackle storytelling using comics.
Teaching and Developing Leaders via Storytelling
Terrific piece on how to use stories and storytelling
Silence Speaks: Multimedia storytelling in Republic of Congo
Story and multimedia tools blend nicely here.
Storytelling Evolved: 18 Ideas in Digital Storytelling
This is a 3 part series. Read ‘em all, they’re great. It’s one heckuva’ site and resource too.
Trial lawyers are storytellers as well!
I guess we’ve got to give them their due, ‘eh? It’s a good impromptu interview.
“Birthright” – meet documentarian Sean Mullens
A new site for me, and a good one too. This is the first in a series on different approaches to technology and storytelling.
Power to the Pixel 2009
Wonderful talk on the evolution of storytelling.
Storytelling 140 Characters at a Time … Not
Another new site for me. Lou Hoffman, of the Hoffman Agency, shares some great storytelling insights.
Stories as a means to cultural pluralism
A nice article on using story to develop a greater awareness and understanding of other cultures and perspectives.
The most powerful tool anyone has in their relationship collection is the ability to find, tell and understand
Nice tweet from “The Storyteller”, Sean Buvala.
Great Advertising Is Great Storytelling.
Number one thing that makes us human? The need to tell stories. You might just shed a tear or two here.
Reason 1020 to Hire a Copywriter or the Power of the Myth
Copywriting and myth making.
The Monti
These folks are in my backyard for goodness sake and I’m just now finding out about them! What a great storytelling platform they’ve created.
Erica Priggen “Creating Content for Change”
“We don’t see the world, we see stories. This is our filter.”
Storytelling vs. lying
“Part of what makes storytelling so powerful is that the audience can witness and participate in the creation of fictional truth.”
Finding Commitment to Storytelling
Another new site for me and another great one, The International Storytelling School.
Ontario Stroke Network using the power of story to create change
Using storytelling to empower health care. I like it!
Daddyteller
This is another project of “The Storyteller”, Sean Buvala, and it’s a good one. Teaching your kids values one story at a time.
New book in the works on storytelling for speaking and communicating
Sally Strackbein is asking for what we want to know.
